[svn-r9727] Purpose:

    Bug Fix/Code Cleanup/Doc Cleanup/Optimization/Branch Sync :-)

Description:
    Generally speaking, this is the "signed->unsigned" change to selections.
However, in the process of merging code back, things got stickier and stickier
until I ended up doing a big "sync the two branches up" operation.  So... I
brought back all the "infrastructure" fixes from the development branch to the
release branch (which I think were actually making some improvement in
performance) as well as fixed several bugs which had been fixed in one branch,
but not the other.

    I've also tagged the repository before making this checkin with the label
"before_signed_unsigned_changes".

Platforms tested:
    FreeBSD 4.10 (sleipnir) w/parallel & fphdf5
    FreeBSD 4.10 (sleipnir) w/threadsafe
    FreeBSD 4.10 (sleipnir) w/backward compatibility
    Solaris 2.7 (arabica) w/"purify options"
    Solaris 2.8 (sol) w/FORTRAN & C++
    AIX 5.x (copper) w/parallel & FORTRAN
    IRIX64 6.5 (modi4) w/FORTRAN
    Linux 2.4 (heping) w/FORTRAN & C++


Misc. update:

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/c++/examples/writedata.cpp b/c++/examples/writedata.cpp
index 8e0404c..0bed680 100644
--- a/c++/examples/writedata.cpp
+++ b/c++/examples/writedata.cpp
@@ -98,7 +98,7 @@ int main (void)
        * Select hyperslab for the dataset in the file, using 3x2 blocks, 
        * (4,3) stride and (2,4) count starting at the position (0,1).
        */
-      hssize_t start[2]; // Start of hyperslab
+      hsize_t start[2]; // Start of hyperslab
       hsize_t stride[2]; // Stride of hyperslab
       hsize_t count[2];  // Block count
       hsize_t block[2];  // Block sizes
@@ -156,14 +156,14 @@ int main (void)
       /*
        * Select sequence of NPOINTS points in the file dataspace.
        */
-      hssize_t coord[NPOINTS][FSPACE_RANK]; /* Array to store selected points 
+      hsize_t coord[NPOINTS][FSPACE_RANK]; /* Array to store selected points 
                                               from the file dataspace */ 
       coord[0][0] = 0; coord[0][1] = 0;
       coord[1][0] = 3; coord[1][1] = 3;
       coord[2][0] = 3; coord[2][1] = 5;
       coord[3][0] = 5; coord[3][1] = 6;
 
-      fspace.selectElements( H5S_SELECT_SET, NPOINTS, (const hssize_t **)coord);
+      fspace.selectElements( H5S_SELECT_SET, NPOINTS, (const hsize_t **)coord);
 
       /*
        * Write new selection of points to the dataset.